What is "ominous"

Usage examples of "ominous".

The three Afghani officers ranged themselves around the room, an ominous presence.

The jungle seemed to close in on Batman then, an ominous green shroud which threatened to smother him.

The blue machine roared up in a perfect stalling turn, but even as Biggies took it in his sights an ominous flack-flack-flack warned him that an unseen enemy was perforating his fuselage.

Across the harbor, the patrolling war junks were an ominous reminder that the war at the Bogue was not as Ear removed as it seemed.

Near the window was a large-sized medicine chest, and in despair Bunty crushed himself into it, his legs huddled up, his head between his knees, and an ominous rattle of displaced bottles in his ears.

Leff scrambled to his knees, his face ominous, and Courant, who had been looking at the mare, apparently indifferent to the quarrel, now slipped to the ground.

The sky that had been so clear in the morning was now a curdled mass of ominous clouds.

From outside, a smoky haze obscured details, but Dex could see the ominous shapes form as they strode closer.

In one night the king died with his three sons, and the drums that thundered their dirge drowned the grim and ominous bells that rang from the carts that lumbered through the streets gathering up the rotting dead.

At the sight of that ominous form, with its fist-gripped automatics, Silk Dowdy barked a spontaneous command.

There was a moment of ominous silence before one, braver than the others, opened the door to reveal Talcoran and Drust, his aide.

The sun had disappeared entirely from its spectacular setting, engulfed by edgeless clouds of ominous blues, grays, and purple.

Captain Craddock took a gliding step inwards, his face enigmatically hinting a sense of regret which was somehow ominous.

By now the ominous mist crawled up, to settle about them, so thickly that even Dedan and the scout, close as they were to Ramsay now, were enwreathed nearly to the point of invisibility.

Boba Fett had had enough experience with Trandoshans over the years to know what a bad sign it was when their voices went low and ominous like that.